One rainy afternoon Schäfer and I decided to make some play dough. He requested the color orange. I thought the cookie cutters would be really fun, but he preferred to make snakes and put them in their snake holes.

Why are we adopting? Every family’s journey to adoption is different. This is ours:

Adoption is a calling that was placed on our hearts years before we even dated. We each had encounters with families who had adopted children. Those families – whether they knew it or not – placed a seed